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New comment by mftb in "Why are neural networks and cryptographic ciphers so similar? (2025)"

mftb — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:02:43 +0000

This is a good and useful breakdown. There are lots of ways to get an education and continue learning.

New comment by mftb in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2026)"

mftb — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:40:48 +0000

Location: California

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Résumé/CV/LinkedIn: Available upon request

Email: hn[dot]canteen389[at]passmail[dot]net

Technologies: C/C++, Go, C#, Microsoft .Net, Java, XML/DOM, HTML, ASP/ASPX, PL/SQL, TSQL, JSP, JavaScript/TypeScript, JQuery, React, OOP, Client/Server Networking

Hi I'm Matt, Software engineer for ~20 yrs, VP of Engineering for ~10 yrs. Extensive experience in both Server-side and Front-end Engineering.

New comment by mftb in "We Will Not Be Divided"

mftb — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:46:57 +0000

Stand your ground.

New comment by mftb in "Snake on a Globe"

mftb — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 09:56:35 +0000

New comment by mftb in "Undb – Private first, unified, self-hosted no code database"

mftb — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 16:06:58 +0000

DB engine appears to be sqlite. It's in the tags on the main page and there's a file full of sql to create what looks like a sample db in the data/ dir.

New comment by mftb in "Spectral Contexts in Go"

mftb — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 03:12:28 +0000

Choosing to name variables with a single character has nothing to do with syntax. At most it could be considered idiomatic, but there's no reason to slavishly follow every idiomatic choice, just as there isn't in natural language.

New comment by mftb in "Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4"

mftb — Thu, 25 May 2023 18:51:37 +0000

Ah, good eye, ty.

New comment by mftb in "Lessons from Creating a VSCode Extension with GPT-4"

mftb — Thu, 25 May 2023 17:37:54 +0000

I appreciate your write-up, it was well done. How long did you spend on this? I'd be most interested to know how long, not counting writing the blog post.

New comment by mftb in "How much memory do you need to run 1M concurrent tasks?"

mftb — Mon, 22 May 2023 16:45:28 +0000

See response to sibling comment.

New comment by mftb in "How much memory do you need to run 1M concurrent tasks?"

mftb — Mon, 22 May 2023 16:45:04 +0000

I think I just responded too hastily. I am working in Go. There is file IO going on in addition to the calculation (which because of a NAS or whatever could also be network IO). As a practical matter I had never felt the need to offer cancellation or timeout for these use cases, but I probably should, so mea culpa.

New comment by mftb in "How much memory do you need to run 1M concurrent tasks?"

mftb — Mon, 22 May 2023 06:11:24 +0000

You've misunderstood how go routines work. You need to put the "go" keyword before the function call in order for it to be run concurrently.

New comment by mftb in "How much memory do you need to run 1M concurrent tasks?"

mftb — Mon, 22 May 2023 06:00:09 +0000

This isn't true. I have use cases that don't require cancellations or timeout. The tasks I'm running don't involve the network, they either succeed or error after an expensive calculation.

New comment by mftb in "Hundreds of millions of stars turned into a map of GitHub projects"

mftb — Sat, 13 May 2023 23:44:56 +0000

To me this is proof that doing a good visualization is really an art. I saw this on hn for a couple hours, but really didn't think much of it. As soon as I clicked through the funny names, and "continents" brought a smile to my face.

I guess my little project is too small to make it, but now I too aspire to join the great nation of Golandia.

New comment by mftb in "Four questions concerning the internet"

mftb — Mon, 01 May 2023 00:38:54 +0000

I never said I stopped reading anything.

New comment by mftb in "Four questions concerning the internet"

mftb — Mon, 01 May 2023 00:32:44 +0000

Manipulators frequently admit their manipulations, knowing that they work on you anyway. There's nothing novel there.

New comment by mftb in "Four questions concerning the internet"

mftb — Sun, 30 Apr 2023 23:17:24 +0000

From the linked post:

> I cheated a bit there, I admit. I changed one of the words. The name that the saint used in that passage was not ‘Ahriman’. It was ‘Antichrist.’

That's manipulation. That's gross. That's a shame. There are some interesting ideas in the post.

New comment by mftb in "DeepFloyd IF: open-source text-to-image model"

mftb — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:45:28 +0000

This was an excellent summary, ty.

New comment by mftb in "Show HN: ScrapScript – A tiny functional language for sharable software"

mftb — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 23:35:02 +0000

Surprised, none of the more functionally minded have jumped in. Looks interesting, I'll be taking a look, when it ships.

New comment by mftb in "Boot to Vim, Vim as Pid 1 (2014)"

mftb — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 15:43:44 +0000

lol, the nuclear option. You don't mess around, but really, I think the answer is, never quit Vim.

New comment by mftb in "Boot to Vim, Vim as Pid 1 (2014)"

mftb — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 07:52:17 +0000

That's the spirit! (but I can't help it if you've mistaken a cleverly disguised web browser for a text editor.)